Spin density matrix elements in exclusive $��$ electroproduction on $^1$H and $^2$H targets at 27.5 GeV beam energy
| Autor: | The HERMES Collaboration, Airapetian, A., Akopov, N., Akopov, Z., Augustyniak, W., Avetissian, A., Blok, H. P., Borissov, A., Bryzgalov, V., Capiluppi, M., Capitani, G. P., Cisbani, E., Ciullo, G., Contalbrigo, M., Dalpiaz, P. F., Deconinck, W., De Leo, R., De Sanctis, E., Diefenthaler, M., Di Nezza, P., D��ren, M., Ehrenfried, M., Elbakian, G., Ellinghaus, F., Etzelm��ller, E., Fabbri, R., Felawka, L., Frullani, S., Gabbert, D., Gapienko, G., Gapienko, V., Garibaldi, F., Gavrilov, G., Gharibyan, V., Hartig, M., Hasch, D., Holler, Y., Hristova, I., Ivanilov, A., Jackson, H. E., Joosten, S., Kaiser, R., Karyan, G., Keri, T., Kinney, E., Kisselev, A., Korotkov, V., Kozlov, V., Kravchenko, P., Krivokhijine, V. G., Lagamba, L., Lapik��s, L., Lehmann, I., Lenisa, P., Lorenzon, W., Ma, B. -Q., Mahon, D., Manaenkov, S. I., Mao, Y., Marianski, B., Marukyan, H., Movsisyan, A., Murray, M., Naryshkin, Y., Nass, A., Nowak, W. -D., Pappalardo, L. L., Perez-Benito, R., Petrosyan, A., Reimer, P. E., Reolon, A. R., Riedl, C., Rith, K., Rostomyan, A., Ryckbosch, D., Sch��fer, A., Schnell, G., Sch��ler, K. P., Seitz, B., Shibata, T. -A., Stahl, M., Stancari, M., Statera, M., Steffens, E., Steijger, J. J. M., Taroian, S., Terkulov, A., Truty, R., Trzcinski, A., Tytgat, M., Van Haarlem, Y., Van Hulse, C., Vikhrov, V., Vilardi, I., Wang, S., Yaschenko, S., Yen, S., Zeiler, D., Zihlmann, B., Zupranski, P. |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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| DOI: | 10.48550/arxiv.1407.2119 |
| Popis: | Exclusive electroproduction of $��$ mesons on unpolarized hydrogen and deuterium targets is studied in the kinematic region of Q$^2$>1.0 GeV$^2$, 3.0 GeV < W < 6.3 GeV, and -t'< 0.2 GeV$^2$. Results on the angular distribution of the $��$ meson, including its decay products, are presented. The data were accumulated with the HERMES forward spectrometer during the 1996-2007 running period using the 27.6 GeV longitudinally polarized electron or positron beam of HERA. The determination of the virtual-photon longitudinal-to-transverse cross-section ratio reveals that a considerable part of the cross section arises from transversely polarized photons. Spin density matrix elements are presented in projections of Q$^2$ or -t'. Violation of s-channel helicity conservation is observed for some of these elements. A sizable contribution from unnatural-parity-exchange amplitudes is found and the phase shift between those amplitudes that describe transverse $��$ production by longitudinal and transverse virtual photons, $��^{*}_{L} \to ��_{T}$ and $��^{*}_{T} \to ��_{T}$, is determined for the first time. A hierarchy of helicity amplitudes is established, which mainly means that the unnatural-parity-exchange amplitude describing the $��^*_T \to ��_T$ transition dominates over the two natural-parity-exchange amplitudes describing the $��^*_L \to ��_L$ and $��^*_T \to ��_T$ transitions, with the latter two being of similar magnitude. Good agreement is found between the HERMES proton data and results of a pQCD-inspired phenomenological model that includes pion-pole contributions, which are of unnatural parity. "Erratum version", e.g., includes the corrected version of Figure 6, to be published in "Erratum to: Spin density matrix elements in exclusive omega electroproduction on 1H and 2H targets at 27.5 GeV beam energy". Three SDMEs were mislabeled in the figure of the previously published version [EPJC74(2014)3110]. The labels have been fixed, while none of the results or conclusions changed |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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